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Chapter 112: Do You Love Me?

*Ciana*

Theo was moved to his room and I went with him. Dottie, the healer, was summoned to check him over. I stood back and watched as she did her job.

She sighed a few times. My heart raced every time and I held my breath.

“Prince Theo is fine,” she said. “He just needs a little time to recover.”

“Are you sure that he is going to be okay?” I wanted to be assured.

“Yes, Miss. If you’re worried, stay with him. You can look after him,” she suggested..

“Yeah, I’ll do that.” I went to the bedside and tucked the covers closer to Theo. Slowly, I smoothed some wrinkles out of his comforter.

He looked peaceful, like he was just asleep instead of unconscious. There was a slight thinness to his face, probably from being starved in the dungeons.

Nita stood at his bedside, opposite of me. She looked at Theo’ s sleeping face with a strange expression of mixed emotions.

“He’s going to be okay, Lady Nita,” Dottje smiled at Theo’s mother, but looked puzzled-relieved, but puzzled.

“You can just call me Nita. The king’s dead, and I’m no longer a royal concubine.”

Dottie nodded. “It was a miracle! He didn’t kill you. Actually, you look… better than you did a few hours ago. What a relief!”

“I’m not sure what happened but I suddenly felt a lot of my strength return.” Nita then absently lifted her eyes to me. “But there is a more urgent matter to discuss.”

Why was she looking at me like that?

“You’re immune to Theo’s powers. Why?” she asked, fixing me with a hardened, suspicious stare.

I shook my head. Being immune to Theo’s power was as much a shock to me as everyone else. At that point, I didn’t even think too much. All I knew was that I had to do something so that Theo wouldn’t kill his mother.

He’d already suffered too much from Maggie and Warren.

Based on what Jake said, there had been no other survivors when Theo’s power was activated in the past. Now that things calmed down, I had the chance to sort through the details of the past incidents.

Perhaps the reason Theo’s deadly impact skipped Warren was because I happened to be there to break their physical connection.

As for why it didn’t impact me… I shrugged at Nita. “I don’t know. Maybe it is just fate.”

Nita murmured, as if she was talking to herself. “As far as I know, even the mates of the Dark Kings weren’t immune to this power. That was why the descendants of the Dark Kings had to be really careful when they were around their loved ones.”

I grinned, “Whatever it is, it’s a good thing, right? I’m just glad I was able to help!”

Nita looked at me for a long moment, and her sharp look softened. She turned on her heel and walked towards the door. “It seems like Theo is in good hands. I’ll come back once he is awake.”

“Don’t worry, we’ll let you know as soon as he is up!”

Nita walked out of the room with a gentle sigh, but she didn’t say anything else.

I stayed with Theo most of the day. His breathing was steady and his color was returning. Dottie had left a few things that would help revitalize him once he woke up. I wasn’t worried about him anymore. He was strong and I knew he’d pull through.

When I left his room to grab myself a snack, the palace was in complete chaos. I’d never seen so many people running around! It was like no one knew where they were supposed to be or what they were supposed to be doing.

I dodged around a frantic servant and dashed away from a couple of well-dressed maids that were urgently discussing Warren and Theo’s condition in rapid, short sentences.

A familiar face popped out in the crowd and I went over.

“Jake, what is going on? Why is everything…” I got cut off by a

bustling by as he bumped into

I rubbed

more,” Jake said, dismissively. He looked

help,”

are panicking. They have no idea what is going on and there is a lot of fear about who is going to become the next ruler, especially with

“I see,” I muttered.

a member of the royal family. Jake was Theo’s Beta and he was having a hard

Beta Jake,” Sophia called

and let out a long, exasperated sigh.

was right behind her with an unusually large

Sophia panted. She tried and failed to

How?” I blurted out, knowing that Warren

the other guards that Sebastian attacked have woken up as well.

that

them all and they are all well on their way to recovery,” she said,

said, sighing again. Only this time, it was a sigh

I thought once a life essence was taken, it had to be replaced,

as well,” Dottie admitted,

awake, and I need to be by his side.” Sophia turned on her heel and ran down the

to Nita. I was still amazed at how fast she’d recovered. She’d been unconscious

happening to Warren

is time to get answers. There is one person that

“Xavier!” I jumped in.

infirmary room where Dottie had set Xavier up.

slammed his hand down on the bedside table. “Xavier, stop pretending to

covered in bandages. Xavier lifted wide, scared eyes to Jake. Then, his eyes darted to me

Prince Theo

wakes up, he will be the one to determine whether you will live or die. We are interested in

just let me go. Tell Prince Theo I escaped. Or tell him I died. I just want to go back to my home pack and live out the rest of my life,” he begged, looking at us with

put in a good word with

like a sob. “Okay, what do you want to

about Sebastian, all of his dirty laundry. We

his position, propping himself up on

knew that his power was limited. He couldn’t kill his enemies with it but he knew another way to use it to his advantage. He would steal little bits of everyone’s energy. It is

gasped and covered my

snarled and shook his

heavily, her shoulders sagging. “That’s

ever see how fast he recovered after getting wounded? That is because he was stealing life from everyone. Just enough that they wouldn’t notice,”

know?” Jake asked,

many people, he could take a small portion from all of them and it would replenish him

like a snake. Sebastian was cruel and awful, but I never knew he

life force of anyone who stood around him?”

far as I know, that power only works when there is physical contact. People might feel exhausted at times,

feel exhausted after Sebastian’s visit. I thought it was just… because she hated him so much, it emotionally drained her,” Dottie muttered more to

have been returned to their original owner… well, if the

is awake! Whatever Sebastian stole from him was enough to restore what Theo took!”

“If Sebastian stole enough over the years, it would be enough to wake him now that Sebastian is dead

be why Nita recovered so soon too!” Dottie came to that conclusion, solving the puzzle

Lady Nite really lucked out,” Jake added. “If…

then died right then, she might not have

called her Lady Nita out of respect, probably because she was

thing,” Dottie muttered, shaking her

I answer all your questions? Can I please leave now, forever?”

a clean bill of health, you can leave, but I don’t want you coming back, ever!” Jake gave his final say. He knew Theo wouldn’t care less about the ending